Quotes About Nature

Human nature is above all things lazy.

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

Effective magic is transcendent nature.

Nature loves you ten times more than a mother loves her newborn.

One of the many interesting challenges nature presents us is its apparent disinterest in maintaining the order humans crave.

Our view of nature will influence the way we treat nature, and our view of human nature will affect our understanding of human responsibility.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

The summer breeze was blowing on your face Within your violet you treasure your summery words And as the shiver from my neck down to my spine Ignited me in daylight and nature in the garden

Nature creates nothing without a purpose.

Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity of education and tutors.

There is a great difference between mind and body insomuch as body is by nature always divisible, and the mind is entirely indivisible.

Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.

We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body.

Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.

My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.

We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.